Week of Events
Sunday, June 28, 2026
No events on this day.
Monday, June 29, 2026
No events on this day.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
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June 30, 2026 -The Butterfly Experience
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June 30, 2026 -Exhibit: Growing Together
The Butterfly Experience
(MD) (Montgomery Parks) A world of wonder takes flight as Montgomery Parks’ popular Butterfly Experience returns to Brookside Gardens. Visitors will be surrounded by hundreds of brilliant butterflies from the Americas, Africa, and Asia as they flutter among vibrant, lush tropical blooms. This intimate experience offers rare, up-close encounters while trained staff and volunteers highlight the stages of metamorphosis, the ...
Exhibit: Growing Together
(DC) (Smithsonian Gardens) Nine exhibits across Smithsonian Gardens around the National Mall hold history and memories, tell American stories, and carry culture through food growing and seed saving. The exhibition also introduces gardens as places of wellbeing, connection, and innovation—from horticultural therapy to the powerful role trees play in ecosystems and in cities.
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
No events on this day.
Thursday, July 2, 2026
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July 2, 2026 -Exhibit: The Art of Truman Low
Exhibit: The Art of Truman Low
(DC) (Smithsonian) View the first major retrospective of the acclaimed Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk) artist: Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe. Lowe’s elegant, minimalist sculptures made of willow branches, feathers, and other organic materials evoke the rivers, streams, and waterfalls of the Wisconsin woodlands where he was raised and the canoes used to traverse them.
Friday, July 3, 2026
No events on this day.
Saturday, July 4, 2026
No events on this day.